Die Deutschen(2008)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2008-10-26
Average Runtime: 43m
Rating: 6.9
Votes: 9
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 20
Die Deutschen is a German television documentary produced for ZDF that first aired from October to November 2008. Each episode recounts a selected epoch of German history, beginning with the reign of Otto the Great and ending with the collapse of the German Empire at the end of the First World War. In November 2010 the second season of Die Deutschen was published in German television, beginning with Charlemagne, the Frankish King, and ending with Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. Historical events are recreated through a combination of live action scenes and computer generated animations. The series was filmed at over 200 different locations in Germany, Malta, and Romania at a cost of approximately €500,000 per episode.
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Season 1
Episodes: 10E01
Otto and the Empire
Air Date: 2008-10-26
The birth of the Germans. In the struggle of the German tribes against the Hungarians, something like a sense of comm...
E02
Heinrich and the Pope
Air Date: 2008-10-28
The walk to Canossa. It is a power struggle such as has never been seen before: King versus Pope. Who is the stronger...
E03
Barbarossa and the Lion
Air Date: 2008-11-02
Rivalry in the family. He is the king of the Germans and wants to rule over the Occident as emperor: the Staufer Fred...
E04
Luther and the Nation
Air Date: 2008-11-04
The reformer and promoter of the German language. At first, he was just a simple monk, a doubting and struggling theo...
E05
Wallenstein and the War
Air Date: 2008-11-09
Genius commander or traitor? It is a battle for religious and political supremacy in the empire and in Europe: Cathol...
E06
Frederick the Great and the Empress
Air Date: 2008-11-11
Duel between Prussia and Austria. After the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation resembled a...
E07
Napoleon and the Germans
Air Date: 2008-11-16
Between freedom and repression. It is a foreign emperor, of all people, who catapults Germany into a national era: Fr...
E08
Robert Blum and the Revolution
Air Date: 2008-11-18
An unknown hero. A revolution - in Germany? And by no means, as Lenin later smugly told the Germans, with a proper pl...
E09
Bismarck and the German Empire
Air Date: 2008-11-23
From Small-State Fighter to National Fighter. After the revolution of 1848, the unsuccessful attempt at "unity from b...
E10
Wilhelm and the World
Air Date: 2008-11-25
A monarch between megalomania and depression. The German Empire at the beginning of the 20th century: too small to ru...
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